Research Assistant I - Allergy, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the clinical team with the collection, processing, storage, and inventory of human biospecimens.
• Work with senior lab members to learn new lab specific techniques.
• Conduct biomarker studies on clinical samples by preparing dilution plates, running ELISA assays, analyzing data, and communicating experimental results to the team.
• Assist LSTCI graduate students and fellows by preparing and executing mechanistic experiments, including cell culture or animal studies.
• Aid in experimental and clinical data collection and organization, keeping an up-to-date laboratory notebook and record of data/sample acquisition.
• Operate lab equipment such as centrifuge, pH meter, autoclave, spectrophotometer, analytical balance, etc.
• Attend weekly lab meetings being present and prepared to share experimental results.
• Maintain the laboratory by inventorying supplies, monitoring lab storage units, and cleaning and maintaining labware and equipment.

Qualifications

• Less than 1 year of relevant work experience.
• Bachelor's degree.